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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-06

ing and not returning until evening.
She never visits: cannot be induced to
quit her quarters. Ali her food is cooked
by a servant in the store and her hus-
band carries all the meals to her room.
SIS your wife satisfed?'' | asked Lee
Chick. mo, she is not. She is per-
fectly happy in her home life, having
no other desire, but she is childleSS,
the greatest affection that can befall a
Chinese wife. Lee Chick is also very
much dissatisfied at the rate his family
refuses to increase. After trying I'M
successfully to adopt some American
child, he has decided to take his wife
back to China and leave her
there. He will then procure him
self another. He has already one
wife in China and two children, but she
refuses to come to America. Lee Chick
wants an American for number three,
and he made the writer proposal. He
was told that men outside OF Utah
were allowed but one wife, and that if
they were found to have one in Brook
lyn and another i'll Harlem they would
get into serious trouble. 1.-Two wives in
one room in China no trouble" was his
reply. This is incOnceivable, but 1t is
true. With all their addition in wives,
divorce and infidelity are very rare.
The wife most appreciated is she who
finds use for the most personal names.
We drank a social cup of tea from china
cups about twice the size of thimble.
and after wishing one another ''Kung
He Fla TOi," the equivalent of Il wish
YOU great prosperity, !" the interview was
over. 1t would seem that women never
wear the breeches in the Celestial EN-
pire, but when l asked Lee Chick, he
Sighed and said that there were just as
many hen-pecked husbands in the
Orient "Allee same Amellka."
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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

docs he go by machinery" inquired
little girl who saw dude on bicycle
passing.-New Haven News.
A Chicago dude watched a drove of
hogs to see if he could find some spiced
pigs feet-New Orleans Picayune.
The arrest of a Philadelphia noodle
maker explains where all the dudes
come from.-Pittsburg ChrOnicle-Tele-
graph.
Language was made to conceal
thought. a dude has no use for lang
uage, then, for he has no thought to con-
ceal.-Texas Siftings.
There is nothing new under the sun.
saws Solomon. Nevertheless it will be
admitted that the dude is pretty fresh
Boston Courier.
The new York authorities show too
much partially. They have ordered
the monkey to be banished from the
streets of the city. but permit the dude
to remain.-Norrist Herald.
1t is not uncommon for fashionable
young man to live beyond his means !;
but when a dude lives beyond the
means of his mother he must marry or
come to want.-New Orleans Picayune.
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the head in long OblOng puff. Gold
rings kent it all in place, but it had the
appearance of being SOaped to make 1t
smooth and stiff. The forehead was eX-
tremely high and the eyebrows had
habitually surprised curve. The cheekS
were round. dotted with charming DIM
niles the nose a little inclined to tiatness
Int withal piquante, the teeth exquis-
iteIy white and beautifully shaped, and
fine Inns either artificially dyed or natur-
aIIv a rich carmine. With the air and
look of childish innocence, Mrs. Sang
Chong was not bad to look at.
But her dress! 1t Is hard to describe
il so AS to give an idea of its delicate
beauty. 1t was light blue silken robe
trimmed with bands OF crimson SILK.
The upper robe was made with flowing
sleeves which disclosed similar white
silk robe underneath. The skirt or pet
ticoat of plain crimson. was made
perfectly straight and touched the moor.
Her tiny feet, not more than hVe ncnes
in length, were covered Win WhlIe SIX
hosiery and inserted in dainty Chlhese
slippers of blue silk: embroidered IN
gold. with white satin covered SoleS.
Her arms were loaded with bracelets of
several kinds and her ears held rings OF
enormous size. Her silver thimble with
which she had been sewing, still
clasped the little brown finger. 1t was
a silver band worn on the second joint
of the middle finger. Mrs. San Chong
moved around with a quiet grace and
ease that would be the envy OF Filth
avenue belle.
The rooms. if not beautiful, possessed
in an eminent degree that virtue when
is next to gOdliness. In front OF small
private altar. joss sticks and SandalWood
censers threw little smoke clouds OF per
fume into the air. GrOtesque pictures,
statuarv and bric-a brac Ornamented the
walls. Here and there banners ana
scrolls of gorgeous hue, and covered
with quotations from the great poets
and masters of China, reached from
ceiling to floor. White curtains half
concealed doors and windows. Inc 1ur-
niture was like some of the inhabitants
of North street, curious conglomera-
ton of America and Canton. Canton OF
Guam Tung, by the way, is the New
York of Southern China. The bed Is
merely small board bunk. Its dress
ing was rolled up and put into bright
colored slips. These covered with rugs
allowed the bunk to be used as sofa
during the day. Several embroidery
frames with art work i'll various stages
of progress occupied a table III
the corner. Our conversation was I'M
tied. but Lee Chick was good EngllSh
scholar and did the translating. He Is
teaching Mrs San ChOng English, but
she forgets. She reads poetry. history
and love stories and spends all her day
alone. her husband leaving III the morn
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A sOUDAN HAREM.
Brass Anklets and Bracelets and
Other BarbarOus Gewgaws--.
Their Morals.

Brass Anklets and Bracelets and
Other Barbarous Gewgaws---
Their Morals.
Clearly our friend is man of catholic
tastes in the matter of women, says 10
seph Thompson, the African traveller,
describing visit to a chief in the Sou
dan. His harem presents all kinds Of
facts and figures, from the copper-col-
Ored Fillani, with slender, 1.-the figure,
well-shaped face and positively beauti-
full eyes, to the shapeleSs form, black
skin, ugly face and muddy eyes of the
lowest negro type.
They are ali dressed alike, with a
lower turkedi or cloth around the waist,
hanging to the ankles, second sheet
wound around the body under the arm
pits and third worn in the varied
modes of a shawl on the head and
shoulder. The hair is gathered into a
solid greasy fringe, which extends from
the brow to the nape of the neck, some
thing after the manner of the crest of a
helmet. From each temple hangs a
kind of stiff lOve-lOck. The ankles are
adorned with enormously heavy
anklets of solid brass, the bar being
a little short of an inch and a half in
thickness, the ends Ornamented with
neatly made polygonal beads. Nothing
better finished could be turned out OF a
European workshop. Round the wrist
are placed several more brass bracelets,
not so expansively made, but collec-
lively so heavy that to ease their arms
the wearers are frequently to be seen
with hands clasped behind the head or
hanging down their backs. Their
ornaments usually include a string
of agate beads made in the cOun-
try. The women, unlike the
men, do not affect white cOlOrs,
the more fashionable cloths being checks
of dark blue, medium tint of the same.
white and Magenta. Among those who
can afford expensive articles the latter
two cOlOrS are prevalent. Strangers
are not usually admitted into the fam
lily compound, but it must not be sup
posed that the women are kept strictly
inside and never let out. Quite the
reverse. In the evenings they are
almost invariably at liberty to wander
forth and join in any dance or mer-
rymaking there may be af00t,
and would not like to be responsible
for the statement that their behavior Is
always of the best on these occasions.
During the day also, if any OF the
women have anything to buy OF sell at
the market, there is no restriction TO
their going thither. In the more
wealthy families, however, there is al
ways one if not two wives who are kept
in strict secluSion. and not unfrequently
eunuchS are employed to guard the
morals of the harem.
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SO as to be half natural and half gro
tesoue. Most of her culinarygeniuS is eX-
pended on stews and made dishes. Here
She uses every article known to the
Partisan chef and President BlackfOrd
of the IchtheophagouS club and a host
of food substances, spices and condl-
mentS for which there are no names in
any of the European languages. Her
skill in weaving and embrOidering silk
is equally great. With needle no finer
than which her Occidental sister uses
she will construct dragon an inch long
and half-inch high, of which not only
the teeth. eyes and claws are perfect,
but even the pupil, iris and cOrnea, and
the difference between the incIsOrS and
CANNES are clearly and naturally de-
fined. An altar-clOth of dragons in the
joss-hOuse at POP Chatham square, and
a moving screen of peacocks at No.
Mott street, are good illustrations of
this marvellous workmanship, and prob
ably could not be duplicated anywhere
III Christendom.
Lee Chick San ChOng. merchant at
&c Mott street, captured by my smiles,
consented to introduce me to his wife
and her bOudOir, which | supposed
would be as interesting as the woman.
His store was in the basement and his
wife lived On the first floor above. /
followed my guide through dirty, IN
carpeted hall to door at the farthest
end. He raped rather vigorously with
his knuckles on the portal, which had
no outside knob or latch. After while
it was unlocked on the inside. he pushed
it open and we stood on the inside.
Almost in the rear of the room, with
some sewing in her hand, stood the
woman | had come to see. She smiled
at her husband and looked at me with
out fear or surprise, but as babe looks
at a new object held before its innocent
ewes. Lee Chick San Chong spoke to
her in his peculiar language and then
turning to me said, my wife," An
other moment and the little brown fin
gers covered with rings were clasped in
nv gloved hand and we were looking at
each other as only two women can.
What she saw is left TO the imagination,
but this is what gazed upon with in
terest.
A little woman. not more than FIVE feet
high. with the blacklist of eyes, which
were larger and more open than those
of the average Chinaman. She had the
typical Monaghan face with a complex
ion that, from the exclusion of sunlight,
resembled bleached golden wax. Her
blue-black hair was cOmbed back with
out part, dressed over the ears like a
half oyster shell and down the back of
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strangely resembles the treatment OF
the queen bee in an apiary by her drones
and workers. Five OF these lutte
women celebrated their marriage vows
in China. two in San Francisco and two
in New York, says Nellie Bly, in st.
Louis Republican. The moment she
marries, the Monaghan damsel
becomes the property OF her
husband-a little more so than they do
in America. Her spouse has the priv
ilege, as all husbands the world over,
to chide, scOld and chaStise her for her
faults, and they assert that III cases OF
grave crime he has the right TO XIII her-
In his punishment he may put her on
what We would call bead and water
diet. keep her locked up in bed room,
closet or celler. or beat her with his
hand or a bamboo rod. In this respect
the Chinese law is almost fac simlle OF
the common law which prevailed IN
England and this country until about
1905, and which allowed the husband to
correct his wife with 1.-The open hand
or a light rod," but not with the
clenched fist nor club" Under TINS
custom the average Acknowledged woman
expects to be beaten with regularity
proportional to her qQeued lords atfec-
ton, and, like the wives OF English
''navvies.' regards the omission OF cor
pOral punishment as sure evidence or
the loss of his love.
In New York the Chinese family lives
in same fiat or building as that in which
the pater-familiaS does business. To
the wife is allotted one, two or three
rooms according to his wealth. From
these she practically never Stirs. Either
her husband or servant does all the
marketing and shopping. Still worse,
she must not receive calls from the other
sex excepting in rare cases when the
husband presents an intimate friend.
On such-an occasion the visitor bows
repeatedly, shakes his own hand for
minute or two, -utters the usual StereO-
tyDed remarks about the health OF her
self, family cousin and friends, and de-
parts without having once looked at her
face.
Where is the American that could do
that? She goes to no place OF amuse-
ment and never walks upon the street.
She reads but little and that love StOleS.
love poems and religious books. But
she can generally cook, weave, crochet,
embroider and keep house" miracu-
lousy.
A dinner with Mo Kee, leading i'm
porter and banker at s Mott street, OF
with Fuong Hong Long, at 5, is an
event which will bear comparison with
a banquet at DelmOnicO's or the HOtf-
man house. The wife will take dozen
eggs, pierce them at either end, blow
out the contents, refill them with vari-
colOred and vari-favOred custards and
jellies, seal the apertures, and then
when cooked, paint the shells until they
are a nightmare of dragons, flying
griffins and impossible trees that look
like men and men that look like
trees. She will open and steam a
fish until the skin can be removed with
out losing a scale and the bones without
breaking the flesh. 1t is stuffed with
an aromatic and pungent mass OF meats
and spices. Then the skin is put
back and the eyes and head touched
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-06
PEACE.

Wind and wave in headlong huge comno-
ton
Scud, dark with tempest, DER the Atlantic's
breast;
While underneath, few fathoms deep in
ocean,
Lie peace and rest.
Storms in midair, the rack before them
sweeping,
Hurry and hiss, lie furies hate possessed;
While over all white cloudlets pure are Sleep
ing
In peace, in rest.
Heart. wild wild hearth why in torm-
world raging
Flit'st thou thus midway, passions slave
and jest,
When all so near above, below, unchanging,
Are heaven, and rest?
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THE FRENCH CUT.

latter. Have you
heard of the new hand-shake? am
sure it must have been invented by
some woman with pretty hand and
arm and an unlimited command of fresh
gloves. 1t is accomplished high in the
air, and woe be it unto you, therefore,i If
yur gloves are not perfect fit. or are
the least bit solled, for they become for a
moment the observed of all Observers
The hand is grasped warmly raised to a
good height, and then suddenly quilted.
Yes, exactly the action we connect with
,,oonL,+o 80 ,,ar,- c+orflinp S0npthinp
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THE HIGHWAY OF FAME.

The sures and simplest highway to fame
Is to be an adept in the national game.
In p ulpit, in politics, business. in all
The professions of life there's chance
that you'll fall.
...,t if you can hit three Dagger at will
And can catch without muffing the
spherical pill;
(; . teal with impunity base after base,
An I can stop without wincing hot balls
with your face,
You may make up your mind that fame,
fortune is thine,
As long as you play with a regular nine.
Life.
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They should dress PROFILE.
their hair low and aim at rounded eff
fects. Yes, French twists are still
good deal worn and many women cling
to the coil on top of the head, but L
think, on the whole, hair is descending,
and hear that in Germany it has al
ready arrived at the nape of the neck.
"Can tell you anything about gloves?
Well, this much: that the effort to send
tan-colored gloves out was quite I'M
successful and they will be worn as
much as ever this winter. The sales
man at Blanks showed me sixteen diff
ferent shades of tan-cOlOred SuedeS the
other day. Short-fingered gloves are
now thought bad style, and the French
cut is the proper thing. French gloves,
you know, have long fingers, and that
makes your hand look long and slender.
/ think moderately short sleeve and
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foot is perfect.
Half low shoes
are used a good
deal in place of
slippers, trim
med with big
bows of ribbon
or leather, and,
it goes without
saying. buckles.
Buckles of sill
yer, gold, jet,
ana all sorts or
stones are every
where this year,
and especially
on low shoes
ond ciiY1norc
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Patent leather slippers with Rhine stone
buckles, and bronze ones with tiny
buckles of amber, yellow topaz or pink
coral are particularly swell. Common
sense slippers won't be worn this win
the cut Of your walking boots is now
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-06
HAIR IN A CREEK KNOT.
A Return to Classic Style Not Becom-
ing 10 Many Women Of the Pres
ent Day.
The Pump Handle Shake as a Popular
Fad Among Foolish
Females.
The Girl Who Wears Black Stockings
and White Slippers---Long Gloves
and Silk Topped Boots.

"Why have you
screwed up your
hair like that?"
"Oh, it's the new
est fashion,"
"YOur head looks
like a W a S Ii e +
wOman'S."
"What nonsense.
tits a Greek knot"
b Il don't care
whether it's Greek
xor Egyptian; but l
, won't take you to
the theater unless
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an eight or ten Dut-
toned glove is
much more style
fulf-tO use the
latest wOrd-than
a long sleeve and
"a four = buttOned
! glove, though some
Innnnla fornfar the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-06
RIVALS IN LOVE.

RTHUR HILL. ES-
quire. commonly called
master Arthur" aged
twenty-three, was en-
gagged to a girl
Whose face he ne er had
gaZ' d upon.
About eight years
before my tale opens,
a dispute had arisen
about a certain estate
in Waterford, to which
Mr.. Hill, Arthur's
father, and a certain
George Wilson both
laid claims. Litigation
seemed inevitable, and
the legal fraternity be-
gan to "be on the
lookout" when one
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ONE SHOE TO BOOT.

Jones, he keeps blacksmith shop,
His wife poultry pen;
Jones. he shoes the horse
And his wife she Shoes the hen.
Whitehall Times,
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Deophyte is very sta
like an electric shock.
At LenoX this fall all
the girls were wear
ing with their tailor
gowns those heavy
dressed-kid English
gloves with Tapped
drawn seams sewed
as harness is Sewed,
to show one light
edge of the leather.
Then, for neglige, they
l,o1 .,a.s ,rla-A. nr,%
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BUCkLED SHOE. reason why the 1aSn-
ion of having evening shoes made to
match ones gowns died so quickly.
Some girls still cling to it, but only
those with well-shaped feet. Of course,
if girl has small, pretty foot, with
out any bumps or Jumps on it, she wants
to show it off. / know girl on the
South side who in the evening always
wears black silk stockings and white
kid slippers! OF course nothing could
be more trying or conspicuous, but her
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cOlors, of course. al
ways make the feet
look more Shapely,
and light ones ac-
,centuate any irregu-
larities, which is the
$1,000, -l,- %IA T0ch
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considered sufficient; in the house your
toes may be as pointed and your heels
as high as you like" -,
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very full, without a BOOTS.
slit at the wrist. and made of soft, dark
kid. Undressed kid are always worn i'll
the evening. and very long; but it's no
longer the thing to let them wrinkle on
the arm la Bernhardt. TO keep them
smooth it is good plan to slit them
near the top and pass an electric band
through the slit and around the arm,
turning down the top of the glove lit
tie bit to hide the elastic. You can buy
extra skins now in all the evening tan
shades for making slippers, which must
exactly match your gloves. 1t is a
pretty fashion. but expensive, for a
pair of suede slippers can be danced
into holes in two evenings.
"BOOts with light silk tops and straps
across the front are a good deal worn.
Beige-colOred silk galOched with patent
le.ther are pretty, and the black ga
loche makes the foot look small. Dark
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or directly Denlnd
you, and your Golf
fure may be very
pretty at the back
and extremely be-
coming to your full
face and yet leave
a great deal to be
desired. The prin-
cipal use of a hand
glass Is to give you
three-Quarter and
profile views of
your face, and if
you don't use it in
this way you might
almost as well be
without it. Women
with sharp feat
ures should never
indulge in high,
pointed cOiffureS.
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HOW CHINESE LIVE.
Description Of the Residence
of a Family of the Better
Class.
Their Cuisine a Wonder Of
Art and a Marvel to
Americans.
Mrs. Lee Chick San Chong
Will Have to Go Back to
China,
Because She Cannot Supply
Her Husband With a Son
and Heir.

o FAR as known
there are only
fourteen Chinese
women in New
York city. Of
these nine are
married, one is a
widow. one an un-
married girl, one a
} Nurse and two an
'onyma. Although
residents of the
United States, they
obey to the very
letter the strange
system the law
and custom which
obtains in t h e
Flowery kingdom;
a system which
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sIIRuRRAN TRAINS

CHARLES THOMPSON, City Ticket Agent
Hotel Ryan, st. Paul.
j. c. HOWARD, City Ticket Agent MIC
Ollet House, Minneapolis.
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W. j. C. KENYON, General Passenger
Agent ST Paul. Mimi.
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THE GREEK KNOT. you unScreW Uldl
knob.
"BOo-hOon'
Such was the evidently cOnjugal dia-
lOgue which fiOated from North side
VeStibule last nigh at the hour when
theater-gOers seek the softly padded
landau cushion, or, more frequently,
the leathern strap of the somewhat less
luxurious street car.
"Are Greek knots really the proper
thng?' inquired Chicago News re-
porter of Miss Minerva.
"Oh. yes, indeed" she replied. Eff
teen out of every twenty fashionable
women wear them now, and to nineteen
out of the twenty they are appallingly
unbecOming. The twentieth lucky Great
IRE looks charming She has the pc
culiar style of face and head, something
like Mary AndersOn'S, you know, which
is adapted to it. Unless you are the
twentieth lucky woman i consider the
Greek knot Snicide, absolute suicide.
1t is the most trying style of couture
ever invented. Why do so many women
who otherwise display good taste do
their hair SO unbecomingly? Oh, L
don't know. I've often tried to dis
cover, too. l think one reason is that
the average woman utterly refuses to
see the necessity for using a hand
glass, or if she makes use of one at all,
it is only for the purpose of finding out
whether her back hair is all right,
which, of course, is proper enough as
far as it goes, but doesn't cover the
whole ground.
people are not always, or even most
of the fine either directly in front of
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Dining Cars, Pullman Sleepers, elegant day
coaches. second-class coaches and emigrant
sleeping cars between st. Paul, Minneapolis,
Fargo. Oak, and all points in Montana and
Washington territories. Emigrants are car
ried out of st. Paul and Minneapolis on Pa
cific express, leaving daily at p. m.
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Through Pullman Sleepers daily between
ST. Paul and Grand Forks, Oak.
Through Pullman Sleepers daily between
st. Paul and Wahpeton, Dak.' on Dakota ex
CITY Office, st. Paul, 169 East Third st.
CITY office, Minneapolis, No. 10 Nicolles
house CHAS. S. FEE,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent
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Albert Lea Accom- go.
Excelsior & Winthrop
st. Louis Through Elk
Des Moines & Kansas
City Express. 1900.
Chicago East" Elk.